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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 711, August 11, 1877All who had the pleasure of knowing the Rev. Charles Kingsley, author of Hypatia, Westward Ho, and Alton Locke, will acknowledge that however great he was as a parish clergyman, poet, novelist,...

Pähkinänrusentaja ja hiirikuningasErnst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann syntyi vuonna 1776 Knigsbergiss, itisimmss Preussin sopukassa. Hn kuoli neljnkymmenenkuuden ikisen, ja hnen tomunsa on ktketty Berlinin Jerusalem-kirkkomaalle alati vihreiden pensaiden ja villien kukkien alle. Koko hnen elmns oli kuin yht ainoata seikkailua. Hnen olemuksessaan oli jotakin eptodellista...

The Capsina: An Historical Novel ILLUSTRATIONS "HE RAISED THE MUSKET TO HIS SHOULDER" "UP THE STEPS CAME THE SINGER, FROM THE SEA AND THE SUN" "THE SPIRIT OF THE STILLNESS TOUCHED THE CAPSINA'S SOUL" "HALF A DOZEN MEN BURST INTO THE CUSTOM-HOUSE" The little...

Improvement in Fire-Arms and in the Apparatus Used Therewith - United States Patent Office ApplicationBe it known that I, Samuel Colt, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, did obtain Letters Patent of the United States for an Improvement...

A Man ObsessedJeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his...

The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC PERSONAGESOF BOSTON. Illustrated $2.00 OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC FIELDS OF MIDDLESEX. Illustrated 2.00 NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. Illustrated 3.50 CAPTAIN NELSON A Romance of Colonial Days .75 THE HEART OF THE...

General Nelson's ScoutThroughout the following pages the threads of history and fiction are closely interwoven. The plot of the story is laid in the dark and stormy days of 1861, amid the waving trees and blue grass fields of Central Kentucky. No State wept...

Pietolan tytötVuorien kiertmn Kalliojrven itisimmss lahdelmassa loivan kuusikkoviitarinteen pivn kaltevalla niemell kyhntti Pietolan matala uudistalo. Etelpuolella taloa, lahdelman takana, kohosi mahtava, kuusikkoviitarinteinen ja jklkuljuinen Hyllyiskero niin korkealle, ett moneksi viikoksi Pietolan asukkailta anasti taakseen talvisen auringon. Luode- ja pohjoispuolella seisoi tummine kuusikkorinteineen lamuharjainen Karhurovan...

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe IndiansThe subjects of this bulletin, the Ojibwe Indians, have probably been designated by more different spellings of their name than any other tribe in the country. The anglicized version is Chippewa, an adaptation of the Ojibway of Longfellow. Ojibway means...

The Missouri PersecutionsMy chief purpose in publishing this book, and the one which will immediately follow"The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo"is to place in the hands of the youth of the Latter-day Saints a full statement of the persecutions endured by the early members...

First LensmanThe enemy spacefleet arrowed toward the armored mountainnerve center of the Galactic Patrol. The Patrol battle cruisers swerved to meet them, and a miles-long cone of pure energy ravened out at the invaders, destroying whatever it touched. But the moment before the force...

Knowledge for the Time - A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing ResearchThe great value of contemporary Historythat is, history written by actual witnesses of the events which they narrate,is now beginning to be appreciated...

Prose (1880-1890) Nello studio dove eravamo non si poteva pi vivere. Si stava in una soffitta al sesto piano di un casamento altissimo, dove, nell'estate si bruciava come in un forno, e nell'inverno, nei giorni di pioggia, anche i quadri ad olio diventavano all'acquarello....

Luonnosta ja elämästä: Satuja ja kertomuksia lapsilleKaste ruohon lehdell. Shat ja Don. Karhu kuormalla. Haukka ja jnis. Kotka. Miten sudet opettavat poikiaan. Leijona ja koira. Talonpojan kertomus siit, mink vuoksi hn rakasti vanhempata veljens. Pietari ensiminen ja talonpoika. Raivostunut koira. Kaksi hevosta. Tasan jaettu...

Ten Dollars Enough: Keeping House Well on Ten Dollars a Week - How It Has Been Done; How It May Be Done AgainThe success of Ten Dollars Enough, as it appeared serially in the pages of Good Housekeeping, and the numerous letters received by...

Kit and Kitty: A Story of West MiddlesexMy name is Christopher Orchardson, of Sunbury in Middlesex; and I have passed through a bitter trouble, which I will try to describe somehow, both for my wifes sake and my own, as well as to set...

Jimmy BoyJimmy was a fine, straight boy, with frank[10] brown eyes and a pleasant smile. People called him a noble little fellow; and so he was on the whole, but he admired himself rather too much. It was hard for him to own that...

A Few More VersesDid you not know Me, my child? the lips and eyes that were all love seemed to say to her. You have thought the thoughts that I inspired, you have spoken my words, you set forth to fight on my side...

Theatrical and Circus Life - or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust ArenaA HISTORY OF THE THEATRE FROM SHAKESPEARE'S TIME TO THE PRESENT DAY, AND ABOUNDING IN ANECDOTES CONCERNING THE MOST PROMINENT ACTORS AND ACTRESSES BEFORE THE PUBLIC;ALSO, A COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF THE...

Bacon and ShakespeareTo anticipate for this little book that it may prove the means of convincing a single Baconian of the error of his ways, would be to express a hope that has only the faintest chance of realisation. Baconianism is so wilful and...